System and Method for Providing Health Safety in a Wireless Power Transmission System

ABSTRACT

Embodiments in the present disclosure may be directed to a system and method for providing health safety in a wireless power transmission system. The wireless power transmission system disclosed here may include one or more wireless power transmitters, one or more wireless power receivers, one or more mobile client devices each running GUI system management software, one or more remote information service servers, and one or more active or inactive system management servers. The presently active system management server may host web service for system management GUI. The servers may be local or located remotely within a cloud. The method may include a checklist of proscribed circumstances or criteria that may allow the user to specify the circumstances when wireless power should not be transmitted to the client device in use by the user.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

The present disclosure is related to U.S. non-provisional patentapplication DWV-3DPF-010 entitled “Methodology for Pocket-forming”; andDWV-3DPF-028 entitled “Methodology for Multiple Pocket-Forming”;DWV-3DPF-015 entitled “Method for 3 Dimensional Pocket-forming”;DWV-3DPF-027 entitled “Receivers for Wireless Power Transmission”;DWV-3DPF-029 entitled “Transmitters for Wireless Power Transmission”invented by Michael Leabman, each of which are incorporated by referencein their entirety herein.

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BACKGROUND

1. Field of the Disclosure

The present disclosure relates generally to wireless power transmissionsystems, and more specifically to a system and method for providinghealth safety in a wireless energy system.

2. Background Information

Electronic devices such as laptop computers, smartphones, portablegaming devices, tablets and so forth may require power for performingtheir intended functions. This may require having to charge electronicequipment at least once a day, or in high-demand electronic devices morethan once a day. Such an activity may be tedious and may represent aburden to users. For example, a user may be required to carry chargersin case his electronic equipment is lacking power. In addition, usershave to find available power sources to connect to. Lastly, users mustplugin to a wall power socket or other power supply to be able to chargehis or her electronic device.

An approach to mitigate this issue may include using RF waves throughsuitable power transmission techniques such as pocket-forming. Thisapproach may provide wireless power transmission while eliminating theuse of wires or pads for charging devices. In addition, electronicequipment may require less components as typical wall chargers may notbe required. In some cases, even batteries may be eliminated as a devicemay fully be powered wirelessly.

The approach may enable the creation of wireless power networks similarin structure to regular wireless local area networks (WLAN) where awireless access point is used to provide internet or intranet access todifferent wireless devices. A wireless power transmitter may providewireless power charging to a plurality of wireless power receivers thatmay be embedded in covers for smartphones, tablets, or the like.However, there are certain circumstances where wireless energy exposuremay be harmful for the person that is using the device being charged.

For the foregoing reasons, there is a need for a method for providinghealth safety within a wireless power transmission system.

SUMMARY

Embodiments in the present disclosure may be directed to a system andmethod for providing health safety in a wireless power transmissionsystem. The wireless power transmission system disclosed here mayinclude one or more system computers, GUI system management softwarerunning on client devices, one or more remote information serviceservers, and one or more system management servers.

According to an embodiment, a method for proscribing client devices fromreceiving power from a wireless power transmission system, based onproscribed circumstances of health safety, may include the steps ofdownloading and installing a system management software app (GUI app)for the wireless power transmission system on client devices; enablingproscriptions for wireless power transmission to one or more clientdevices; displaying a checklist to user and allowing the user to specifyproscribed circumstances or criteria when wireless power should not betransmitted to the client device; reading and verifying saidproscriptions in the wireless power transmission system; applyingproscribed circumstances policy throughout the system; and updatingclient device data records in WPTS's database. User may also specifysaid proscribed circumstances or criteria by using the system managementweb page GUI hosted by a system management server or cloud-basedservice.

GUI app running on said client device may continually monitor the clientdevice to detect if the present operation of said client device matchesany of the proscribed circumstances of health safety. Monitoring theclient device may include, but is not limited to, reading measurementhardware within said device that determines device's present velocity,yaw, pitch, or roll, or attitude by using accelerometers or gyroscopesinternal to said client device.

The health safety determination, of whether or not the client device ispresently in a circumstance proscribed from receiving power from saidtransmission system, may be stored by the GUI app within the data recordthat describes control and configuration of said client device. Saidrecord may be part of the WPTS's distributed database, a copy of whichresides within said client device's memory. GUI app and other computerswithin the wireless power transmission system then automaticallydistribute said updated record throughout said system to keep all copiesof said database, throughout the WPTS, identical. Updated record mayalso be communicated to other system computers by messages, or othermethods.

Numerous other aspects, features and benefits of the present disclosuremay be made apparent from the following detailed description takentogether with the drawing figures.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present disclosure can be better understood by referring to thefollowing figures. The components in the figures are not necessarily toscale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustrating the principles ofthe disclosure. In the figures, reference numerals designatecorresponding parts throughout the different views.

FIG. 1 illustrates a wireless power transmission example situation usingpocket-forming.

FIG. 2 illustrates a component level embodiment for a transmitter,according to an embodiment.

FIG. 3 illustrates a component level embodiment for a receiver,according to an embodiment.

FIG. 4 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a wireless power networkincluding a transmitter and wireless receivers.

FIG. 5 shows a flowchart of a method for proscribing client devices fromreceiving power from a wireless power transmission system, based onproscribed circumstances of health safety.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The present disclosure is here described in detail with reference toembodiments illustrated in the drawings, which form a part here. Otherembodiments may be used and/or other changes may be made withoutdeparting from the spirit or scope of the present disclosure. Theillustrative embodiments described in the detailed description are notmeant to be limiting of the subject matter presented here.

DEFINITIONS

As used here, the following terms may have the following definitions:

“Adaptive pocket-forming” may refer to dynamically adjustingpocket-forming to regulate power on one or more targeted receivers.

“APP” may refer to a software application that is run on a mobile,laptop, desktop, or server computer.

“BTLE”, or “BLE”, may refer to Bluetooth Low Energy communicationhardware and/or software.

“Charge or charging” may refer to the conversion of RF energy intoelectrical energy by a receiver, using an antenna, where the electricalenergy may be transmitted through an electrical circuit connection fromthe receiver to an electrically connected client device, where thetransmitted energy may be used by the device to charge its battery, topower its functions, or any suitable combination.

“Network computer” may refer to any system computer, or the activeremote information server, that is online and has a connection to thenetwork of a particular wireless power transmission system.

“Null-space” may refer to areas or regions of space where pockets ofenergy do not form because of destructive interference patterns of RFwaves.

“Operator” may refer to a person who installs or operates the wirelesspower transmission system. Operator may also be a system user.

“Pocket-forming” may refer to generating two or more RF waves whichconverge in 3-D space, forming controlled constructive and destructiveinterference patterns.

“Pockets of energy” may refer to areas or regions of space where energyor power may accumulate in the form of constructive interferencepatterns of RF waves.

“Pairing” may refer to the association, within the wireless powertransmission system's distributed system database, of a singleelectronic client device with a single power receiver. In one or moreembodiments, this may allow a system to determine from said associationwhich power receiver to transmit power to in order to charge said clientdevice upon receiving a command, from a user or automatic systemprocess, that a client device is to be charged.

“Power” may refer to electrical energy, where “wireless powertransmission” may be synonymous of “wireless energy transmission”, and“wireless power transmission” may be synonymous of “wireless energytransmission”.

“Receive Identification” may refer to an identification number oralphanumeric code or credential that is unique to a specific receiver.

“Receiver” may refer to a device including at least one antenna element,at least one rectifying circuit and at least one power converter, whichmay utilize pockets of energy for powering, or charging an electronicdevice.

“Remote information service” may refer to an Internet cloud-basedproduct which may include a distributed system database, one or moreservers and one or more software modules responsible for communicatinginformation across all computers (or a specified subset) on the wirelesspower transmission system.

“System” may refer to a wireless power transmission system thattransmits power from a transmitter to a receiver.

“System computer” may refer to a wireless power transmitter unit'sembedded computer, a client device capable of running the system GUI, ora system management computer.

“System database” may refer to an exact copy of the system database ofan installed product, or an exact copy of a subset of said database,stored within and accessible by any system computer.

“Transmitter” may refer to a device, including a chip which may generatetwo or more RF signals, at least one RF signal being phase shifted andgain adjusted with respect to other RF signals, substantially all ofwhich pass through one or more RF antenna such that focused RF signalsare directed to a target.

“User” may refer to a person using the system to provide wireless powertransmission to a client device. User may be an operator.

“Wireless power transmission system” may refer to a discreet, installedproduct that includes wireless power receivers, wireless powertransmitters, GUI system management software running on client devices,and management servers; all of which communicate together, share acommon distributed system database, and do not communicate to any otherwireless power transmission installed product, but do communicate withan Internet cloud-based remote information distribution service.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Reference will now be made to the exemplary embodiments illustrated inthe drawings, and specific language will be used here to describe thesame. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scopeof the invention is thereby intended. Alterations and furthermodifications of the inventive features illustrated here, and additionalapplications of the principles of the inventions as illustrated here,which would occur to one skilled in the relevant art and havingpossession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope ofthe invention.

Wireless Power Transmission System Including Disclosed Concepts:

Methods disclosed here may be part of a wireless power transmissionsystem including two or more wireless power transmitters, one or morewireless power receivers, one or more optional system managementservers, and one or more optional mobile or hand-held computers, smartphones, or the like, that run the system management GUI app. This appmay be made available at, downloaded, and installed from a publicsoftware app store or digital application distribution platform, such asApple's iTunes, Google's Play Store, Amazon's Appstore, and the like.

The system computers may all communicate with each other through adistributed system database or by exchange of messages between saidsystem computers, and may also communicate present status and any statuschange to a remote information service that may be located in theInternet cloud. System computers may be power transmitters, smart clientdevices running the system app, and local or cloud-based managementservers.

One or more wireless power transmitters may automatically transmit powerto any single wireless power receiver that is close enough for it toestablish a communication connection with, using a suitablecommunication technology, including Bluetooth Low Energy or the like.Said receiver may then power or charge an electrically connected clientdevice, such as mobile device, toy, remote control, lighting device, andthe like. A single wireless power transmitter may also power multiplewireless power receivers simultaneously.

Alternately, the system can be configured by the system management GUIto automatically only transmit power to specific wireless powerreceivers depending on specific system criteria or conditions, such asthe time or hour of the day for automatic time-based scheduled powertransmission, power receiver physical location, owner of client device,or other any other suitable conditions and/or criteria.

The wireless power receiver is connected electrically to a clientdevice, such a mobile phone, portable light, TV remote control, or anydevice that would otherwise require a battery or connection to wallpower. In one or more embodiments, devices requiring batteries can havetraditional batteries replaced by wireless power receiver batteries. Thewireless power receiver then receives energy transmitted from the powertransmitter, into receiver's antenna, rectifies, conditions, and sendsthe resulting electrical energy, through an electrical relay switch, tothe electrically connected client device to power it or charge it.

A wireless power transmitter can transmit power to a wireless powerreceiver, which, in response, can power or charge its associated clientdevice while device is in use or in motion anywhere within the powertransmission range of the wireless power transmitter. The wireless powertransmitter can power multiple devices at the same time.

The wireless power transmitter establishes a real-time communicationconnection with each receiver for the purpose of receiving feedback inreal-time (such as 100 samples per second). This feedback from eachreceiver includes the measurement of energy presently being received,which is used by the transmitter to control the direction of thetransmitter's antenna array so that it stays aimed at the receiver, evenif the receiver moves to a different physical 3-D location or is in 3-Dmotion that changes its physical 3-D location.

Multiple wireless power transmitters can power a given, single receiver,in order to substantially increase power to it.

When a transmitter is done transmitting power to a receiver, it maycommunicate to the receiver that power transmission has ended, anddisconnect communication. The wireless power transmitter may thenexamine its copy of the distributed system database to determine which,if any, receivers in power range it should next transmit power to.

FIG. 1 illustrates wireless power transmission 100 using pocket-forming.A transmitter 102 may transmit controlled Radio Frequency (RF) waves 104which may converge in 3-D space. RF waves 104 may be controlled throughphase and/or relative amplitude adjustments to form constructive anddestructive interference patterns (pocket-forming). Pockets of Energy106 may form at constructive interference patterns and may be3-Dimensional in shape, whereas null-spaces may be generated atdestructive interference patterns. A Receiver 108 may then utilizePockets of Energy 106 produced by pocket-forming for charging orpowering an electronic device, for example a laptop computer 110, andthus providing wireless power transmission 100. In embodiments disclosedhere, there may be two or more transmitters 102 and one or morereceivers 108 for powering various electronic devices. Examples ofsuitable electronic devices may include smartphones, tablets, musicplayers, and toys, amongst others. In other embodiments, adaptivepocket-forming may be used to regulate power on suitable electronicdevices.

FIG. 2 illustrates a component level embodiment for a transmitter 202which may be utilized to provide wireless power transmission 100 asdescribed in FIG. 1. Transmitter 202 may include a housing 204 where atleast two or more antenna elements 206, at least one RF integratedcircuit (RFIC 208), at least one digital signal processor (DSP) ormicro-controller 210, and one optional communications component 212 maybe included. Housing 204 can be made of any suitable material which mayallow for signal or wave transmission and/or reception, for exampleplastic or hard rubber. Antenna elements 206 may include suitableantenna types for operating in suitable frequency bands, such as 900MHz, 2.5 GHz, or 5.8 GHz, and any other frequency bands that may conformto Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations part 18(Industrial, Scientific and Medical equipment) or any other suitableregulations. Antenna elements 206 may include vertical or horizontalpolarization, right hand or left hand polarization, ellipticalpolarization, or other suitable polarizations as well as suitablepolarization combinations. Suitable antenna types may include, forexample, patch antennas with heights from about ⅛ inches to about 6 inchand widths from about ⅛ inches to about 6 inch. Other antenna elements206 types may be used, including meta-materials, dipole antennas, andothers. RFIC 208 may include a chip for adjusting phases and/or relativemagnitudes of RF signals, which may serve as inputs for antenna elements206 for controlling pocket-forming. These RF signals may be producedusing an external power supply 214 and a local oscillator chip (notshown) using a suitable piezoelectric materials. Micro-controller 210may then process information sent by a receiver through its own antennaelements for determining optimum times and locations for pocket-forming.In some embodiments, the foregoing may be achieved throughcommunications component 212. Communications component 212 may be basedon standard wireless communication protocols which may includeBluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, and/or ZigBee, amongst others.In addition, communications component 212 may be used to transfer otherinformation, including identifiers for the device or user, batterylevel, location or other such information. The micro-controller maydetermine the position of a device using any suitable technology capableof triangulation in communications component 212, including radar,infrared cameras, and sound devices, amongst others.

Multiple transmitter 202 units may be placed together in the same areato deliver more power to individual power receivers or to power morereceivers at the same time, said power receivers being within powerreception range of two or more of multiple power transmitters 202.

FIG. 3 illustrates a component level embodiment for a receiver 300 whichmay be used for powering or charging an electronic device as exemplifiedin wireless power transmission 100. Receiver 300 may include a housing302 where at least one antenna element 304, one rectifier 306, one powerconverter 308 and an optional communications component 312 may beincluded. Housing 302 can be made of any suitable material which mayallow for signal or wave transmission and/or reception, for exampleplastic or hard rubber. Housing 302 may be an external hardware that maybe added to different electronic equipment, for example in the form ofcases, or may be embedded within electronic equipment as well. Antennaelement 304 may include suitable antenna types for operating infrequency bands similar to the bands described for transmitter 202 fromFIG. 2. Antenna element 304 may include vertical or horizontalpolarization, right hand or left hand polarization, ellipticalpolarization, or other suitable polarizations as well as suitablepolarization combinations. Using multiple polarizations can bebeneficial in devices where there may not be a preferred orientationduring usage or whose orientation may vary continuously through time,for example a smartphone or portable gaming system. On the contrary, fordevices with well-defined orientations, for example a two-handed videogame controller, there might be a preferred polarization for antennaswhich may dictate a ratio for the number of antennas of a givenpolarization. Suitable antenna types may include patch antennas withheights from about ⅛ inches to about 6 inch and widths from about ⅛inches to about 6 inch. Patch antennas may have the advantage thatpolarization may depend on connectivity, i.e. depending on which sidethe patch is fed, the polarization may change. This may further proveadvantageous as a receiver, such as receiver 300, may dynamically modifyits antenna polarization to optimize wireless power transmission.Rectifier 306 may include diodes or resistors, inductors or capacitorsto rectify the alternating current (AC) voltage generated by antennaelement 304 to direct current (DC) voltage. Rectifier 306 may be placedas close as is technically possible to antenna element 304 to minimizelosses. After rectifying AC voltage, DC voltage may be regulated usingpower converter 308. Power converter 308 can be a DC-DC converter whichmay help provide a constant voltage output, regardless of input, to anelectronic device, or as in this embodiment to a battery 314. Typicalvoltage outputs can be from about 5 volts to about 10 volts. Lastly,communications component 312, similar to that of transmitter 202 fromFIG. 2, may be included in receiver 300 to communicate with atransmitter 202 or to other electronic equipment.

FIG. 4 shows an exemplary embodiment of a wireless power transmissionsystem 400 (WPTS) in which one or more embodiments of the presentdisclosure may operate. Wireless power transmission system 400 mayinclude communication between one or more wireless power transmitters402 and one or more wireless powered receivers 406 and within clientdevice 438. Client device 404 may be paired with an adaptable pairedreceiver 406 that may enable wireless power transmission to the clientdevice 404. In another embodiment, a client device 438 may include awireless power receiver built in as part of the hardware of the device.Client device 404 or 438 may be any device which uses an energy powersource, such as, laptop computers, stationary computers, mobile phones,tablets, mobile gaming devices, televisions, radios and/or any set ofappliances that may require or benefit from an electrical power source.

In one embodiment, one or more wireless power transmitters 402 mayinclude a microprocessor that integrates a power transmitter manager app408 (PWR TX MGR APP) as embedded software, and a third party applicationprogramming interface 410 (Third Party API) for a Bluetooth Low Energychip 412 (BTLE CHIP HW). Bluetooth Low Energy chip 412 may enablecommunication between wireless power transmitter 402 and other devices,including power receiver 406, client device 404 and 438, and others.Wireless power transmitter 402 may also include an antenna managersoftware 414 (Antenna MGR Software) to control an RF antenna array 416that may be used to form controlled RF waves which may converge in 3-Dspace and create pockets of energy on wireless powered receivers. Insome embodiments, one or more Bluetooth Low Energy chips 412 may utilizeother wireless communication protocols, including WiFi, Bluetooth, LTEdirect, or the like.

Power transmitter manager app 408 may call third party applicationprogramming interface 410 for running a plurality of functions,including the establishing of a connection, ending a connection, andsending data, among others. Third party application programminginterface 410 may issue commands to Bluetooth Low Energy chip 412according to the functions called by power transmitter manager app 408.

Power transmitter manager app 408 may also include a distributed systemdatabase 418, which may store relevant information associated withclient device 404 or 438, such as their identifiers for a client device404 or 438, voltage ranges for power receiver 406, location of a clientdevice 404 or 438, signal strength and/or any other relevant informationassociated with a client device 404 or 438. Database 418 may also storeinformation relevant to the wireless power network, including receiverID's, transmitter ID's, end-user handheld devices, system managementservers, charging schedules, charging priorities and/or any other datarelevant to a wireless power network.

Third party application programming interface 410 at the same time maycall power transmitter manager app 408 through a callback function whichmay be registered in the power transmitter manager app 408 at boot time.Third party application programming interface 410 may have a timercallback that may go for ten times a second, and may send callbacksevery time a connection begins, a connection ends, a connection isattempted, or a message is received.

Client device 438 may include a power receiver app 420 (PWR RX APP), athird party application programming interface 422 (Third party API) fora Bluetooth Low Energy chip 424 (BTLE CHIP HW), and an RF antenna array426 which may be used to receive and utilize the pockets of energy sentfrom wireless power transmitter 402.

Power receiver app 420 may call third party application programminginterface 422 for running a plurality of functions, includingestablishing a connection, ending a connection, and sending data, amongothers. Third party application programming interface 422 may have atimer callback that may go for ten times a second, and may sendcallbacks every time a connection begins, a connection ends, aconnection is attempted, or message is received.

Client device 404 may be paired to an adaptable power receiver 406 via aBTLE connection 428. A graphical user interface (GUI 430) may be used tomanage the wireless power network from a client device 404. GUI 430 maybe a software module that may be downloaded from any suitableapplication store and may run on any suitable operating system,including iOS and Android, amongst others. Client device 404 may alsocommunicate with wireless power transmitter 402 via a BTLE connection428 to send important data, such as an identifier for the device,battery level information, geographic location data, or any otherinformation that may be of use for wireless power transmitter 402.

A wireless power manager 432 software may be used in order to managewireless power transmission system 400. Wireless power manager 432 maybe a software module hosted in memory and executed by a processor insidea computing device 434. The wireless power manager 432 may include alocal application GUI, or host a web page GUI, from where a user 436 maysee options and statuses, as well as execute commands to manage thewireless power transmission system 400. The computing device 434, whichmay be cloud-based, may be connected to the wireless power transmitter402 through standard communication protocols, including Bluetooth,Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, or ZigBee, amongst others. Powertransmitter manager app 408 may exchange information with wireless powermanager 432 in order to control access by and power transmission toclient devices 404. Functions controlled by wireless power manager 432may include scheduling power transmission for individual devices,prioritizing between different client devices, accessing credentials foreach client, tracking physical locations of power receivers relative topower transmitter areas, broadcasting messages, and/or any functionsrequired to manage the wireless power transmission system 400.

FIG. 5 shows a flowchart of a method 500 for proscribing client devicesfrom receiving power from a wireless power transmission system, based onproscribed circumstances of heath safety. The disclosed method mayoperate in one or more components of a wireless power transmissionsystem. The wireless power transmission system may include one or moresystem computers, GUI system management software running on clientdevices, one or more remote information service servers, and one or moresystem management servers, among others.

The remote information service server may be coupled to a systemdatabase which may be duplicated or distributed across all networkcomputers operating in the wireless power transmission system. Saiddistributed system database along with the database distributionmanagement software operating within all network computers may allowinstant communication in the wireless power transmission system.

Examples of system computers may include wireless power receivers,wireless power transmitters, and system management servers, amongothers. Examples of client devices may include smartphones, tablets, andmusic players, among others.

The process may start at step 502 when the wireless power transmissionsystem (WPTS) boots up and runs a system checkup to make sure allcommunication channels work properly. Subsequently, at step 504 the usermay download and install the system management software app (GUI App) inclient device for the WPTS, if this step has not already been done. Thisapp may be made available at, downloaded, and installed from a publicsoftware app store or digital application distribution platform, such asApple's iTunes, Google's Play Store, Amazon's Appstore, and the like. Inother embodiments, the user may browse to a web page hosted by acomputer or server where the user may command, control, or configure theWPTS. The app or web page may have a user interface that includes, butis not limited to, industry standard checkmark controls, or any otheruser interface control for specifying or controlling health safetyoperational parameters, displayed and described on the viewscreen of aclient device, or web page served by a computer that manages thewireless power transmission system.

Following the process, at decision 506, the GUI app verifies if thereare any proscriptions for power transmission enabled in the WPTS. Ifproscriptions for power transmission have been enabled, continues tostep 518 below, otherwise proscriptions for power transmission have notyet been enabled, then at decision 508, GUI may display a message to theuser asking if the user desires to enable health safety operationalparameters for wireless power transmission. If the user does not acceptto enable proscriptions, then WPTS allows power delivery withoutproscriptions, at step 526, and the process ends. If at decision 508 theuser accepts to enable proscriptions, then at step 510, the GUI app maydisplay a check list to user where he or she may specify thecircumstances when wireless power should not be transmitted to thedevice in use by the user. Then, at step 512, the user specifies theproscribed circumstances which may include, but are not limited to, thefollowing criteria:

1) If the client device is presently in movement, indicating that theuser has the device on the user's person or is holding or wearing thedevice.

2) If the client device is presently physically oriented in any attitudethat is an indication that it is in use. For example, if the device is amobile cell phone that is presently vertically oriented.

3) If the client device presently detects that it is within proximity toa user, such as if the device is being held to the user's face.

4) If the client device presently is placing a telephone call.

5) If the user is presently touching, tapping, or making finger gesturessuch as swiping, pinching, twirling, or interacting with the clientdevice in any way.

6) If the client device is presently connected with a headset or anyother external device.

Subsequently, at step 514, after the user specifies proscribedcircumstances or criteria, applies proscribed circumstances policythroughout all system computers. Then, at step 516, WPTS updates ClientDevice data records in its distributed database. the WPTS reads andverifies proscribed circumstances associated with the client device.Subsequently, at step 518, the WPTS reads and verifies proscribedcircumstances associated with the client device. Next, at decision 520,if proscribed circumstances are present, then at step 522, powerdelivery is disabled, or if at decision 520, proscribed circumstancesare not present, then power delivery is enabled at step 524. The processends.

GUI app running on said client device may continually monitor the clientdevice to detect if the present operation of said client device matchesany of the proscribed circumstances of health safety. Monitoring theclient device may include, but is not limited to, reading measurementhardware within said device that determines device's present velocity,yaw, pitch, or roll, or attitude by using accelerometers or gyroscopesinternal to said client device, or a sensor that indices if device ishelp to face, or sensing any other aspect of the device that indicatesif a proscribed circumstance is present

The health safety determination, of whether or not the client device ispresently in a circumstance proscribed from receiving power from saidtransmission system, may be stored by the GUI app within the data recordthat describes control and configuration of said client device. Saidrecord may be part of the WPTS's distributed database, a copy of whichresides within said client device's memory. GUI app and other computerswithin the wireless power transmission system then automaticallydistribute said updated record throughout said system to keep all copiesof said database, throughout the WPTS, identical.

Examples

Example #1 describes how a decision is made to transmit power to aclient device. Within the system database, the record of a paired clientdevice is associated with the record of the wireless power receiverattached or built within said client device.

If the user uses any user interface (GUI or web page) of a WPTS tomanually command said client device be charged (from power received bysaid wireless power receiver), or if the user has used said userinterface to configure the record of said wireless power receiver toautomatically charge said client device, such as by time, name, orphysical location, or other method, then, the record of said wirelesspower receiver will be updated by the wireless power transmitter thathas present control of the database record of said wireless powerreceiver because it is the nearest wireless power transmitter to saidwireless power receiver, to indicate that said wireless power receivershould presently close its output switch to allow power to output tosaid client device. Said record of said wireless power receiver is alsodistributed, by said wireless power transmitter, throughout said systemfor other wireless power transmitters to read.

Once said wireless power transmitter that controls said wireless powerreceiver determines it should transmit power to said wireless powerreceiver, it next examines the record of the client device associated orpaired with said wireless power receiver, and will only transmit powerto said wireless power receiver if said health safety determination doesnot presently proscribe transmission of power to said client device. Ifpower transmission is not proscribed, then power transmitter may takethe following actions:

A) Begins real-time communication with said receiver to get continuousfeedback of amount of power received, in order to keep transmissionantennas aimed at said receiver.

B) Begins power transmission to said receiver.

C) Commands receiver to close its electrical relay switch to connect andtransmit electrical energy to client device.

If user changes said safety proscriptions, then said wireless powertransmitter will re-determine if said wireless power receiver shouldreceive power or not.

The foregoing method descriptions and the process flow diagrams areprovided merely as illustrative examples and are not intended to requireor imply that the steps of the various embodiments must be performed inthe order presented. As will be appreciated by one of skill in the artthe steps in the foregoing embodiments may be performed in any order.Words such as “then,” “next,” etc. are not intended to limit the orderof the steps; these words are simply used to guide the reader throughthe description of the methods. Although process flow diagrams maydescribe the operations as a sequential process, many of the operationscan be performed in parallel or concurrently. In addition, the order ofthe operations may be re-arranged. A process may correspond to a method,a function, a procedure, a subroutine, a subprogram, etc. When a processcorresponds to a function, its termination may correspond to a return ofthe function to the calling function or the main function.

The various illustrative logical blocks, modules, circuits, andalgorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosedhere may be implemented as electronic hardware, computer software, orcombinations of both. To clearly illustrate this interchangeability ofhardware and software, various illustrative components, blocks, modules,circuits, and steps have been described above generally in terms oftheir functionality. Whether such functionality is implemented ashardware or software depends upon the particular application and designconstraints imposed on the overall system. Skilled artisans mayimplement the described functionality in varying ways for eachparticular application, but such implementation decisions should not beinterpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the presentinvention.

Embodiments implemented in computer software may be implemented insoftware, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware descriptionlanguages, or any combination thereof. A code segment ormachine-executable instructions may represent a procedure, a function, asubprogram, a program, a routine, a subroutine, a module, a softwarepackage, a class, or any combination of instructions, data structures,or program statements. A code segment may be coupled to another codesegment or a hardware circuit by passing and/or receiving information,data, arguments, parameters, or memory contents. Information, arguments,parameters, data, etc. may be passed, forwarded, or transmitted via anysuitable means including memory sharing, message passing, token passing,network transmission, etc.

The actual software code or specialized control hardware used toimplement these systems and methods is not limiting of the invention.Thus, the operation and behavior of the systems and methods weredescribed without reference to the specific software code beingunderstood that software and control hardware can be designed toimplement the systems and methods based on the description here.

When implemented in software, the functions may be stored as one or moreinstructions or code on a non-transitory computer-readable orprocessor-readable storage medium. The steps of a method or algorithmdisclosed here may be embodied in a processor-executable software modulewhich may reside on a computer-readable or processor-readable storagemedium. A non-transitory computer-readable or processor-readable mediaincludes both computer storage media and tangible storage media thatfacilitate transfer of a computer program from one place to another. Anon-transitory processor-readable storage media may be any availablemedia that may be accessed by a computer. By way of example, and notlimitation, such non-transitory processor-readable media may compriseRAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic diskstorage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other tangible storagemedium that may be used to store desired program code in the form ofinstructions or data structures and that may be accessed by a computeror processor. Disk and disc, as used here, include compact disc (CD),laser disc, optical disc, digital versatile disc (DVD), floppy disk, andBlu-ray disc where disks usually reproduce data magnetically, whilediscs reproduce data optically with lasers. Combinations of the aboveshould also be included within the scope of computer-readable media.Additionally, the operations of a method or algorithm may reside as oneor any combination or set of codes and/or instructions on anon-transitory processor-readable medium and/or computer-readablemedium, which may be incorporated into a computer program product.

The preceding description of the disclosed embodiments is provided toenable any person skilled in the art to make or use the presentinvention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readilyapparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles definedhere may be applied to other embodiments without departing from thespirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is notintended to be limited to the embodiments shown here but is to beaccorded the widest scope consistent with the following claims and theprinciples and novel features disclosed here.

1. A system for controlling wireless transmission of three-dimensionalpockets of energy using pocket forming, comprising: a processingapparatus; a storage, operatively coupled to the processing apparatus;and one or more wireless power transmitters, communicatively coupled tothe processing apparatus, the wireless power transmitters beingconfigured to transmit the three-dimensional pockets of energy; whereinthe processing apparatus is configured to receive and process wirelesspower proscribing data relating to a device, wherein the proscribingdata comprises at least one of (i) a device characteristic and (ii) timedata, and wherein the processing apparatus is configured to transmit anoperational command to the one or more power transmitter in response toprocessing the wireless power proscribing data.
 2. The system of claim1, wherein the device characteristic comprises data relating to one of(a) movement of the device and (b) an orientation of the device.
 3. Thesystem of claim 1, wherein the device characteristic comprises datarelating to proximity of the device to a user.
 4. The system of claim 1,wherein the device characteristic comprises data relating to deviceusage by a user.
 5. The system of claim 1, wherein the devicecharacteristic comprises data relating to a peripheral device beingconnected to the device.
 6. The system of claim 1, wherein theproscribing data comprises at least one of device sensor data andschedule data.
 7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processingapparatus is configured to receive and process further wireless powerproscribing data relating to the device and to transmit an updatedoperational command to the one or more power transmitter in response toprocessing the further wireless power proscribing data.
 8. A method forcontrolling wireless transmission of three-dimensional pockets of energyusing pocket forming, comprising: receiving and processing, in aprocessing device, wireless power proscribing data relating to a userdevice, wherein the proscribing data comprises at least one of (i) auser device characteristic and (ii) time data; and transmitting anoperational command from the processing device to one or more powertransmitters, configured to transmit the three-dimensional pockets ofenergy, in response to processing the wireless power proscribing data.9. The method of claim 8, wherein the device characteristic comprisesdata relating to one of (a) movement of the device and (b) anorientation of the device.
 10. The method of claim 8, wherein the devicecharacteristic comprises data relating to proximity of the device to auser.
 11. The method of claim 8, wherein the device characteristiccomprises data relating to device usage by a user.
 12. The method ofclaim 8, wherein the device characteristic comprises data relating to aperipheral device being connected to the device.
 13. The method of claim8, wherein the proscribing data comprises at least one of device sensordata and schedule data.
 14. The method of claim 8, further comprisingthe steps of receiving and processing further wireless power proscribingdata relating to the user device and transmitting an updated operationalcommand to the one or more power transmitter in response to processingthe further wireless power proscribing data.
 15. A processor-basedmethod for controlling wireless reception of three-dimensional pocketsof energy using pocket forming, comprising: generating proscribing datain a user device, wherein the proscribing data comprises at least one of(i) a user device characteristic and (ii) time data; transmitting theproscribing data from the user device to a wireless power system;receiving charging instructions from the wireless power system, whereinthe charging instructions include control data for controlling a mannerin which the user device receives three-dimensional pockets of energyfrom the wireless power system.
 16. The method of claim 15, wherein theuser device characteristic comprises data relating to one of (a)movement of the device and (b) an orientation of the device.
 17. Themethod of claim 15, wherein the user device characteristic comprisesdata relating to proximity of the device to a user.
 18. The method ofclaim 15, wherein the user device characteristic comprises data relatingto device usage by a user.
 19. The method of claim 15, wherein the userdevice characteristic comprises data relating to a peripheral devicebeing connected to the device.
 20. The method of claim 15, wherein theproscribing data comprises at least one of user device sensor data andschedule data.